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Even as it was talked about in Cannes, Hammarskjold's "new era of real mass air transportation" was taking physical form 7,000 miles away in Everett, Wash. Towed out of a huge Boeing Co. plant came the first aircraft of the new era: the 747 "jumbo jet." After considerable ceremony, the gigantic plane was turned over to technicians to be prepared for its first test flight. Although that flight is not scheduled until December, the 747 is very impressive even on the ground, and its potential is immense. The plane is 231 ft. long, will have a fully...
...depends on what we do in fields other than copying." On the other hand, though C.I.T. denies any plans to scale down its auto-financing operations, it can hardly ignore the attempts of competitors to profit from computers and other business machines. For example, Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co., another leading finance firm, recently merged with Control Data Corp., a large computer manufacturer...
...longtime friends, Safeway Stores Chairman Robert A. Magowan marvels at the way Jack Straus "still thinks of Macy's in the same terms that most men think of wives and honor." Or, he might add, of family. One of the great U.S. retailing baronies, R. H. Macy & Co. has thrived 'under three generations of Strauses, none of them more successful than "Mr. Jack," who has held sway over Macy's headquarters in Manhattan's Herald Square for three decades...
...South Carolina's Congaree Iron and Steel Co. ($1,000,000), which needs working capital and has agreed to transfer a substantial part of its stock and profits to a trust for its predominantly Negro work force...
...Millions has a bit of the wryness, a lot of closeups-and a welcome touch of humor besides. Peter Ustinov, who co-authored the script with Ira Wallach, plays Marcus Pendleton, a waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign...